Low-Carb Crustless Pizza

I’m always looking for some low carb recipes. My husband is diabetic and has to watch sugar and carbs. He LOVES pizza and pizza has a lot of carbs, especially in the crust, so I’ve been on the lookout for alternatives

I pinned a Crock Pot Pizza recipe from Your Lighter Side that sounded pretty good. I tried the recipe and instead of using the crockpot, I baked it in the oven. It tasted like pizza but without the crust and all the carbs.

Preheat oven to 350. Brown the ground beef and the bulk fresh sausage until it is no longer pink. Add the minced garlic and fry a couple more minutes. Mix in a jar of your favorite pizza sauce and cook about 5 minutes more. You could make homemade pizza sauce if you want, but I won’t tell if you use the store-bought kind like me! Shhh…no one needs to know.

Place 1/2 of the meat sauce mixture in a 11″ x 7″ baking pan, and 1/2 of the fresh baby spinach on top of that. Put pepperonis on next and layer on any other toppings you want. I used onions, peppers, oregano, and Italian seasoning, since that’s what our family likes. Sprinkle 1/2 of the mozzarella cheese on top of those ingredients. Repeat the layers again ending with the mozzarella cheese.

Cover the whole thing with foil and bake for about 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the foil and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and let rest about 10-15 minutes before cutting.

Cut into about 8 slices – but be aware that this will probably serve fewer than 8 people because it’s so tasty that you’ll want seconds. And you don’t even have to feel so guilty about that second serving, because this is pizza without the crust and all the carbs!

Shelly, Too bad I didn’t see your post about 1 1/2 years ago. Since most of the carbs will be in the pizza sauce, simply look at the label on the jar, take the carbs per serving times the number of servings in the jar and divide by 8. Maybe add 2 for the carbs in all the other ingredients. There you go. Total carbs per serving assuming that you follow the recipe and cut it into 8 slices.